During World War II the church was saved from deliberate destruction by the retreating German forces and was only slightly damaged.
After the liberation, due to wartime annihilation of Warsaw, Waldorff settled in Kraków between 1946 and 1950, where he wrote for the popular magazine Przekrój.
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After the end of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 it was deliberately destroyed by Nazi Germans.
The tram system remained operational, although gradually deteriorating, during most the Nazi occupation until the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, after which all the infrastructure was systematically destroyed.